2008 Liturgical Calendar

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 06:12

Major Fasts and Feasts

January 1	Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord  Feast of St. Basil the Great
January 6	Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
January 13	Sunday after Theophany Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee  (The Sunday of Zacchaeus is omitted this year)
January 20	Sunday of Prodigal Son
January 28	Sunday of the Second Coming of Christ (MeatFare)
January 29	Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom (Advanced one day due to Cheesefare Wednesday)
February 2	Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord with Simeon and Anna  (Presentation of Our Lord into the Temple) 1st All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
February 3	Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare)
February 4	Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
February 10	1st Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
February 16	2nd All Souls Saturday
February 17	2nd Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas
February 23	3rd All Souls Saturday
February 24	3rd Sunday of Great Lent - Veneration of the Holy Cross
March 1	4th All Souls Saturday
March 2	4th Sunday of Great Lent - St. John Climacus
March 6	Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
March 8	Akathistos Saturday
March 9	5th Sunday of Great Lent The Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste
March 15-23	Great and Holy Week
March 15	Lazarus Saturday
March 16	Flowery Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem
March 17	Holy and Great Monday
March 18	Holy and Great Tuesday
March 19	Holy and Great Wednesday
March 20	Holy and Great Thursday
March 21	Holy and Great Friday
March 22	Holy and Great Saturday
March 23	PASCHA - The Resurrection of Christ
March 23-30	Bright Week
March 25	Feast of the Annunciation to the Mother of God / Bright Tuesday
March 30	2nd Sunday of Pascha - St. Thomas
April 6	3rd Sunday of Pascha - Ointment Bearing Women
April 13	4th Sunday of Pascha - Healing of the Paralytic
April 16	Mid-Pentecost
April 20	5th Sunday of Pascha - Samaritan Women
April 23	Feast of St. George the Great-Martyr
April 27	6th Sunday of Pascha - Man Born Blind
May 1	Day 40 - Ascension of Our Lord
May 4	7th Sunday of Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean Council
May 10	5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)
May 11	Day 50 - Pentecost Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius
May 18	All Saints Sunday
May 19 - June 28	The Apostles' Fast
June 24	Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 29	Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
July 13	Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
July 20	The Holy Prophet Elias
August 1-14	Dormition Fast
August 6	Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ
August 15	Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God
August 29	Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
September 1	Liturgical New Year
September 8	Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God
September 14	Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
October 1	Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God
October 19	Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh and Final Ecumenical Council
November 8	Feast of St. Michael and All the Heavenly Hosts
November 15-  December 24	Philip's Fast (Nativity Fast)
November 21	Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
November 27	Thanksgiving Day (USA)
December 6	Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
December 9	Feast of the Conception of the Mother of God in the Womb of St. Anne (some Churches celebrate this feast on December 8th)
December 12	Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Also: Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Tremithus)
December 14	Second Sunday Before Christmas  Holy Forefathers
December 21	Sunday Before Christmas - Holy Fathers
December 25	Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)
December 26	Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God
December 27	Feast of St. Stephen, the First-Martyr
December 28	Sunday After Christmas - Commemoration of the Holy and Just Joseph, King David, and James, Brother of the Lord

Note: The Byzantine liturgical year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31. The movable feasts are determined by the date of Pascha (the feast of the Resurrection). There are two systems currently in use to calculate Pascha - Gregorian (Western) and Julian (Eastern). Roman Catholics, most Byzantine Catholics in America and some Orthodox (notably those in Finland) follow the Gregorian date. Some Byzantines in America and most Byzantines and Orthodox elsewhere follow the Julian date. In the year AD 2008 Pascha will be celebrated on March 23 on Gregorian calendar and on April 27 on the Julian and Revised Julian calendars.

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